Department of Medicine celebrates faculty promotions and clinical distinctions

The Department of Medicine’s Office of Faculty Development hosted the second annual Clinical Distinctions and Promotions Celebration in honor of this year’s recently awarded faculty promotions and clinical distinctions.

Faculty promotions are based on a rigorous application process and are awarded to faculty members based on their impressive contributions in the tri-partite mission areas of service, teaching and scholarship at the local, regional and national/international levels. During the event, nine faculty members were honored for their promotions to the professor level, and 27 faculty members were honored for their promotions to the associate professor level.

Promotion recipient Camille Vaughan, MD, associate vice chair of research and faculty development, reflected on her own professional growth at Emory during the event.

“Emory is a place that encourages collaboration and fosters creativity with a goal of improving health and well-being,” she says. “I’ve meandered back to prominent moments in my own story and gained understanding about the importance of taking chances, being open to new directions, and appreciating those who have supported me in big and small ways.”

In addition, the event celebrated faculty who received this year’s clinical distinctions. The tiered clinical distinction levels, including senior physician, distinguished physician, and master clinician, recognize faculty who have demonstrated achievement in quality of care and patient satisfaction, innovation in clinical care/processes, citizenship and clinical administration. Three faculty members were named master clinicians, six were named distinguished physicians, and 13 were named senior physicians.

“For me, by far the best part of being a member of the clinical distinctions committee is the window it provides into the amazing work being done by our faculty members at Grady, the VA, and Emory sites within the domains of clinical care, innovation, citizenship, and administration,” says Patrick Bowen, MD, chair of the clinical distinctions committee.

Please join us in congratulating the below 2018 Department of Medicine promoted faculty members and clinical distinction honorees. Click here to view or download more event photos in the Department of Medicine’s Flickr album.

Faculty Promotions

Professors:
Arash Grakoui
Stacy Higgins
Adriana Ioachimescu
Octavian Ioachimescu
Vandana Niyyar
W. Clyde Partin
Stephen Pastan
Syed Tanveer Rab
Nathan Spell III

Associate Professors:
Joanne Shirine Allam
Albert Anderson
Saurabh Chawla
John Doran
Jessica Fairley
Micah Fisher
Paula Frew
Divya Gupta
Ijeoma Isiadinso
Wissam Jaber
Russell Kempker
Arezou Khosroshahi
Ketevan Kobaidze
Bernard Lassegue
Frances Eun-Hyung Lee
Jason Linefsky
Jeanie Park
Molly Perkins
Eva Rimler
Anurag Sahu
Alejandra San Martin
Sarah Satola
Hasan Shabbir
Anandi Sheth
Melissa Stevens
Camille Vaughan
Cherry Wongtrakool

Clinical Distinctions

Master Clinicians:
Lorenzo Difrancesco
N. Wilson Holland, Jr.
Frederic Rahbari

Distinguished Physicians:
Rina Eisenstein
Stephanie Garrett
Nurcan Ilksoy
Anna Mirk
Ugochi Ohuabunwa
Tom Price

Senior Physicians:
Bhavin Adhyaru
Sabreena Basu
Charles Grodzin
Jenny Han
Scott Hoff
Khurram Khan
Jennifer Lom
Mohamed Moussa
Anju Oommen
Diego Remolina
Sahebi Saiyed
Quratulain “Annie” Syed
Mehul Tejani